Eirik the Skald

Eirik the Skald was a Danish pagan skald during the late 9th century. During the mid-880s, he became a well-known and influential figure, as he claimed to be the only man able to speak with the "undead" man Bjorn, who prophesied that Aethelwold Aetheling would become King of Wessex, and that Uhtred of Bebbanburg would become King of Mercia.